Titanic (movie, 1997)

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Wednesday he was hiring outside counsel to sue the failed Digital Domain special-effects company and "other parties" involved in a $20 million tax-incentive deal that tanked. The move comes more than a year after Scott's inspector general presented an investigative report that found evidence former Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders had bypassed the normal review process for incentives to push through the $20-million economic-development project. Scott and Crist are now both locked in a heated race for governor, and the statement from Scott general counsel Peter Antonacci lays blame for the deal at the feet...

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TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Wednesday he was hiring outside counsel to sue the failed Digital Domain special-effects company and "other parties" involved in a $20 million tax-incentive deal that tanked.
The move comes more...

No Broadway musical of the last two decades is more ill-served by a massive production than Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's “Titanic.” That might seem counterintuitive. The RMS Titanic was a behemoth floating on superlatives. The international obsession...

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Rupert Murdoch wants one more jewel for his crown.
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BEIJING -- Director-producer John Woo will head up the jury at the fourth annual Beijing International Film Festival, which kicks off April 16, organizers said.
Woo, 67, is the Hong Kong helmer of films including "Mission: Impossible II,"...

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Leonardo DiCaprio has sold his beach house compound in Malibu for $17.35 million.
The leading man had leased out the oceanfront Cape Cod-inspired property in the summer of 2012 at $150,000 a month. Then about a year ago he put it up for sale at $23...

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Robert Redford was going down with the ship.
Yes, the character he plays in writer-director J.C. Chandor's "All Is Lost," which arrives in theaters Friday, is a lone traveler on the Indian Ocean whose sailboat is taking on water from a gash...

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Playing it straight out of New Jersey, that sweet-faced Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the hopeless romantic of...

Halifax, Canada — A cold wind ripped through Fairview Lawn Cemetery. Then came the frigid rain. In a minute, I was thinking, the headstones will be shivering."Now," said Blair Beed, my guide, "imagine how it would have been in those...

The ship so nice they sank it twice, the RMS Titanic has resurfaced from the icy depths of the Atlantic only to be subjected to a second dunking, this time with a 3-D up-charge, under the stewardship of Capt. James Cameron, master and commander.This week,...